Note: I will not be updating as often as I like seeing as I am working on a VERY IMPORTANT book so… wait for it.

Penny Sanchez walked over to where bathtub Granny was.

"Hey bathtub Granny, how are ya?"

"Crappy! It sucks down here!"

"I'm sorry you feel that way. Maybe this will cheer you up. It's a birthday present!"

Just as Penny was handing bathtub Granny the present, the murderer decided to make his move, in the flash of a second he pounced on her!

"HELP ME! SOMEBODY HELP ME! PLEASE!" Penny screamed at the top of her lungs. The murderer put a knife up to her throat.

"If you don't tell me where Rudy is, you're going to get it BIG TIME!" He put the knife closer and closer to her throat.

"I'm not telling you where Rudy is." She said in a tone unbelievably cool for her situation.

"Then here you get it the first time!" He said then he slit the knife down her back causing a bloodstream to flow down her spine. She wailed in pain.

"Somebody…" her voice began to drift… "Help please!"

Yes, bathtub Granny was there, but she could not help seeing she is in a… bathtub.

"I'll give you one more chance! If you don't tell me where Rudy is next time I see you, YOU WILL DIE!" Then he left her to die in her own pool of blood.

It was three hours and the Parents had gotten worried about Penny seeing as she had not returned yet. They called Rudy's house to see if she was there.

"Hello?" Mrs. Tabootie answered the phone.

"DO YOU KNOW WHERE PENNY IS?" Mrs. Sanchez was hyperventilating. "SHE HAS NOT COME HOME YET!"

"No, I'm sorry. I thought she left our house a couple hours ago." Even Mrs. Tabootie was getting nervous now.

"Could you check for me please?" She was still hyperventilating, but retained a cooler composure.

"I will check for you. Hold on."

Mrs. Tabootie then climbed all the way to Rudy's room. Inside she noticed a Chalkboard with a hole in it showing a moving seen of life in another world.

"Wonder if it's a special effects board? I do not remember buying him one…" She went to touch it and her hand went through into the other world.

"Wonder why that happened?" She shrugged and then noticed a glowing piece of chalk.

"Wonder what this does?" She picked it up and drew bigger sides to the hole in the board. She finally got it.

"I wonder if this is where Penny went. I should check." She then walked through the board and fell knees down into the other world.

"Whoa! No wonder Rudy spends so much time up here!" She decided to start looking for Penny. "Penny? PENNY?"

"You're looking for Penny?" A curvy Latino chic with long, wavy brown hair responded. It was Queen Rapsheba! "She's over there!" Pointed to where Penny was. Queen moved her body out, not knowing what to do with it. "Something terrible happened!" Queen walked Mrs. Tabootie down to where Penny was.

"OH PENNY!" Mrs. Tabootie cried.

"What should I do?" Queen cried back.

"Look, I'll take it from here." Mrs. Tabootie said in a hurried and frantic tone. "I will bring the body up there. (Pointing to the hole) I will call the ambulance. Just, thanks for showing me where she was. Can you please help me bring her through the hole?"

Mrs. Tabootie and Queen Rapsheba brought Penny up through the hole using a ladder and a stretcher. Penny was a bloody mess, and it looked like she would not make it. After Mrs. Tabootie got Penny through the hole and said goodbye to Queen, she met the ambulance at the door.

"Take her, please!" Mrs. Tabootie cried.

"She does not look good." The EMT said. "Let's try doing some emergency CPR.

The EMT put his mouth up to her mouth and started breathing into it. Within a couple minutes, she woke up.

"What happened?" Her voice was trailing… "Where am I? It hurts!"

"You're o.k. now Penny…" Mrs. Tabootie said reassuringly. "You're going to a safe place now."

"Home?" Penny Sanchez did not realize how bloody she was.

"No, you have to go to the hospital." Mrs. Tabootie said kindly. "You will come home in a couple days.

Penny seemed to let out an "Oh, man!" before she was pained too much to speak. The EMT led her away to the ambulance car and drove away.

How am I going to tell Rudy this? Mrs. Tabootie thought.

Just a few minutes after the EMT left, Rudy walked in.

"Hey." Mrs. Tabootie let out uneasily.

"Hi, mom! The psycho was o.k, but I like you better!" He put on a sheepish grin with his newly un-bucked teeth. His mom hated to ruin his happiness, but eventually he would find out, might as well find out now.

"Rudy… I have some bad news to tell you…" She put her hand on his shoulder. "I went into your Chalk land…"

"YOU WENT INTO CHALKZONE?" Rudy screamed then put his hand over his mouth.

"Yes." Then she sorrowfully said, "And I found Penny had been in some terrible accident. She was in a terrible accident. She was all bloody and this nice Latino woman told me she did not know what happened. I took her to the Ambulance and now she is at the hospital. We can visit her, if you want…" She then waited for the waterworks, which might as well come from her. She loved Penny like a daughter, from grade 3 to grade 7.

Rudy took it in for a second. He was no longer mad that his mom went into Chalkzone, but sad at what happened to Penny. His two best friends, in the hospital. They both might die. He did not know what he would do without them.

"WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME?" He screamed. "WHENEVER THERE IS SOMETHING GOOD IN MY LIFE IT GETS TAKEN AWAY! WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?"

Mrs. Tabootie tried to calm him down. "Rudy, it will be o.k. everything will get better. She will be out in a couple of days."

"NO SHE WILL NOT, MOM! NO, SHE WILL NOT! I HATE MY LIFE!"

"Son…"

"I WANT TO KILL MYSELF!"

And went back up to his room.